Revered God, my true salvation, ashamed I admit that I have sinned. I’m so sorry, I cursed with your name in a moment of sorrow. Relieve me of my sins, heal me of these self inflicted wounds. I accept your chosen verdict so I may relish in your eternal grace once more.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-lawsuit/kremlin-critic-navalnys-bank-accounts-frozen-apartment-seized-spokeswoman-idUSKCN26F26V

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir-putin-nobel-peace-prize-nominated/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=100414613

Why am I not surprised.  IMHO, I thought if not the  B.R.I.C. leaders atleast Trump/. Putin / Modi/ Xi WILL make the Grade – even as a Bribe by Nobel to regain lost credibility, integrity and moral ground by giving it to utter Nincompoops, LW, Commies and most undeserving. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/pandemic-psychological-first-aid-anxiety/2020/09/21/7c68d746-fc23-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/johnson-johnson-begins-final-stage-062140635.html

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-twitter-hack-election-plan/

https://psyche.co/guides/psychoanalysis-can-help-address-the-cause-of-emotional-eating?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=29a0efe8ae-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_21_06_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-29a0efe8ae-71311728

Infinite Father, my keeper and guardian, I lost your light and stepped into darkness. My mind was weak, I took what isn’t mine. Forgive me for my flaws, relieve me of my demons. Discipline me as you see fit so I may delight in your will.

It’s our business.
More than just a taste.
Blissful knowledge.
We’re here for you.
A slice of heaven.
Better care, better life.
Hold the power.
Love of life.
Onward.
Hearts united.

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1-Sentence-Summary: Suggestible You helps you understand and utilize the power of your mind-body connection by explaining the effect that your thoughts have on your body, including pain, illness, and memory and how to take advantage of it.

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You already know your brain is incredible. But did you know that just on its own it has the ability to relieve pain, heal you from sickness, or even trick itself? The key to unlocking this potential is suggestion. 

Your brain runs on expectations. And it doesn’t like to be let down. Rather than facing reality and changing beliefs, it sometimes would instead change reality. Through suggestion, you can tap into this power and your mind can do amazing things. 

In Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal, Erik Vance delves into the fascinating world of expectation and suggestion.

From the placebo effect to hypnotism, you will be impressed by the incredible ways your brain can trick itself. And most importantly, Vance will help you harness this power and use it to improve your own life.

Here are just 3 of the many fascinating lessons I got out of this book:

1. Placebos work by the power of suggestion.
2. Suggestions can affect the very decisions we make and we don’t even realize it. 
3. You can use this power of expectation to better your life.

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Lesson 1: The placebo effect is very real and it is a product of the power of suggestion.

When we take a drug for pain, we sometimes feel relief almost immediately. But in truth, most medications take about 15 or more minutes to kick in. This is like the placebo effect, the phenomenon when you experience benefits from a drug or treatment that doesn’t actually have any. In other words, your brain creates a benefit based on expectation. 

It’s a well-documented effect that many people believe has a lot of untapped potential. The author says it’s likely the reason for successes in homeopathic medicine. It also could be the key to helping baffling cases chronic pain. 

How can this be? Your brain actually already has the chemical arsenal it needs to treat pain, in the same way opioids do-by releasing endorphins.

And it doesn’t stop there. Our brains produce endocannabinoids, which are found in Marijuana and help with pain, as well as dopamine and serotonin, which have to do with mood. 

All of these chemicals are particularly sensitive to the placebo effect. So your brain has all the resources it needs to help itself with ailments such as pain, anxiety, nausea, depression, or addiction.

However, studies show some people are more suggestible than others. So, if you’re one of the lucky ones, you will experience more benefits from the placebo effect.

Lesson 2: We often make decisions based on suggestions and we don’t even realize it.

Suggestibility affects many of the choices we make every day. Companies know this, and use it to make their products taste better to you. And no, I don’t mean that they just make them seem to taste better, they know that suggestion can make them actually taste better.

Packaging and presentation create an expectation, and your mind will happily want to meet that expectation by making something taste better. 

Don’t believe it? In a study investigating this power of expectation, a researcher told participants that she was comparing two milkshakes, one diet shake and another full-calorie one. She packaged the low-calorie shake with a no-frills and sensible label and gave the full-fat one a luxurious label. 

Unbeknownst to the participants, both actually contained the same amount of calories. Not only did they report the full-fat version tasted better, but when the researcher measured the participant’s hormone levels, she found those who drank the diet milkshake produced more ghrelin-the hormone tells us we’re hungry. Just thinking that they weren’t going to consume as many calories is enough to make them feel hungry. 

Expectation also plays a role in addiction where people get caught in an unfortunate loop. A drug gives pleasurable sensations, and the brain, overwhelmed by this, reduces dopamine production to restore balance. The less dopamine you have, the less pleasure you feel. Soon, you will need more and more of the drug to achieve the same pleasurable effect.

Lesson 3: If you want to improve your life, you can start taking advantage of the power of expectation.

By now, we understand the power of expectation and its ability to do some crazy things. Throughout history, ritualistic and faith healings have shown it can work. While some of their claims may be questionable, there is a way you can bring this power into your own life. 

First, you need to know and understand yourself. Because much of it relies on the power of storytelling, ask yourself what types of stories you find engaging or inspiring. While some people might trust in ancient wisdom, many people don’t believe anything that isn’t established by scientific evidence.

Additionally, some people need meditation and solitude while others do best in a group setting. Find what captures your individual imagination to discover a specific approach that works for you. 

Additionally, because we all have different levels of suggestibility, get to know what yours is. Experimenting with hypnosis is one way to find out how suggestible you are. 

The author gives some rules of thumb for discovering how you can use this power in a smart way. The first is to make sure that you don’t place yourself in any kind of danger. This means being careful with unregulated supplements or substances that people say can help you. Always read the label. 

The next rule is to not give up on traditional medicine. Alternative therapies can help but use these along with needed medical treatments to ensure you don’t harm yourself.

Next, make sure you don’t bankrupt yourself in a search for placebos. If someone is asking for hundreds of dollars for a supplement they probably are trying to take advantage of you.

Suggestible You Review

Suggestible You has such fresh and intriguing ideas. What if the key to our health and happiness lies within our own brains? You will be amazed at what your mind does without you even realizing it. The book is full of captivating scientific facts and stories, I just wish it had a little more actionable advice.

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Who would I recommend the Suggestible You summary to?

The 26-year-old who has seen people be miraculously cured but has no explanation for it, the 49-year-old that is curious about why the body is so good at healing itself sometimes, and anyone that wants to know how their mind and body work.

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King and queen.
Standing out.
Comfort in our hands.
Sheer pleasure.
Bringing solutions.
Moving mountains.
The sky’s not the limit.
For the good times.
Simply perfection.
Beauty of simplicity.

Dearest Father, bringer of all that’s good, I need to relieve my heart of darkness. I don’t know what come over me, I slept through a sermon after a sleepless night. Liberate me of my sins, allow me to prove myself once more. Show me mercy so I may delight in your will.

Thinking ahead.
Imagine this.
We have your back.
On the front line.
Work hard. Play harder.
For those who care.
We promise the best.
Become your best.
It’s our pleasure.
Be better.

Destinations, risks and journeys

Where are you headed? The choices you’re making, the effort, the sacrifices—where is the destination?

We make choices every day about our destination. And because of those choices, we go on a journey.

Along that journey, we take risks but we also experience an internal narrative about those risks.

And so, destinations, risks (perceived and actual) and journeys define our lives.

It’s possible you’ve come to the conclusion that the destination you’ve chosen isn’t for you. That being a pop star, a successful VP of accounting or a receptionist with a secure position isn’t a life you’d like to lead.

But don’t confuse that with the journey. Maybe you’d be happy with the pot of gold at the end of your rainbow, but it’s entirely possible you don’t want to suffer the discomfort and indignities and effort it will take to get to that destination, that you’d like an easier path. You’ll happily take the destination but the truth is, the journey is too arduous.

And don’t confuse that with your imagining of the risks along the way. It might be that you want the destination, that you are willing to put up with (or even delight in) the journey but your narrative of the risks and dangers are just too much to handle.

When we conflate the destination with the journey with the narrative of the risks, we have no hope of improving any of the three. Instead, we often pushed to throw out all three at once or embrace them all. But it’s possible, with effort and planning, to make the journey more palatable or the risks feel more tolerable.

The destination isn’t the journey. And our narrative of the actual risks is up to us.

Did you know…

… that today is Beatles LIFE Cover Day? The Beatles appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine on this day in 1964. The article inside, There Stood the Beatles as the Battle Smoke Lifted, chronicled their arrival at San Francisco’s airport and the Beatlemania that ensued. It was followed by The Cool Brain Behind the Bonfire, featuring their manager, Brian Epstein. Good reading!

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Today’s Inspirational Quote:

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

— Lou Holtz

Celestial Father, redeemer of souls, temptation took hold of me in a moment of weakness. Have mercy on me, I did not love others as you do. Liberate me of my darkness, allow me to prove myself once more. I put my fate in your hands so I may delight in your will.

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Profit taking is lazy
Once an organization reaches scale, particularly if it feels like a monopoly, it’s tempting to “take profits.”

This means less investment, fewer staff and a lot less care. Those things are expensive. Easier to simply keep the money.

And those things involve emotional effort. Easier to simply point to the bottom line, as if that’s the point.

Lazy managers dump the emotional labor on overworked frontline staff instead of creating systems that create value for everyone.

And lazy shareholders reward quarterly earnings instead of understanding the long-term ramifications of failing to serve customers.

“We don’t care, we don’t have to,” is often the last slogan once-great institutions have emblazoned on their door

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WORD OF THE DAY

Jargoon jar-GOON Part of speech: noun Origin: French, mid-18th century

1 A translucent, colorless, or smoky gem variety of zircon

Examples of Jargoon in a sentence “I found the vintage jargoon brooch at my favorite antique store.” “Even though it’s jargoon, it glitters like a diamond.”